- It's a hit. I know it right now.
- Pretty racy video. Pretty, pretty risque.
♪ (ragtime intro) ♪
- Looks like one of the Jonas brothers.
- Oh, I know this guy. I'm not sure his name
is Shawn or not.
- Is this Shawn Mendes? Oh, good.
I knew it, I knew it. I'm so excited.
- I like the intro.
- I love this music already. Let's go.
- Dancing music, I like that. And he's awfully cute.
Look, I can look, right?
♪ I love it when you call me señorita ♪
- Well, this is sort of a Latin flair to it.
♪ I didn't need you but every touch is ooh la la ♪
- ♪ La la la la la ♪ Soft, gentle, caressing
like the waves in the sea.
♪ The air was hot from summer rain ♪
♪ Sweat dripping off me before I even knew her name ♪
- Obviously, this is something about a love story
between the two.
- This is more old school to me. You can understand the words,
they're not saying the F-word, they're not calling
women the B-word.
♪ We danced for hours in the sand ♪
- Sultry.
- They'd be a good looking couple. Nice hookup there.
I mean, matchup.
- Come on, what's not to like, Right?
♪ It felt like ooh la la la ♪
- It's a real romantic view.
♪ I wish I could pretend I didn't need you ♪
- They're hot. I like the song, too.
♪ But every touch is ooh la la la It's true, la la la ♪
♪ I should be running You know I love it ♪
- There they are, back on the motorcycle
without helmets and in shorts, but that's not what I'm supposed
to be looking at, is it? But I'm a mother.
- Gotta put the helmet on.
- So far, I really like this video. It's sexy, but in an artistic way,
not in a graphic way.
- It's romantic. It's not sexy, it's not too much.
♪ Ooh, you keep me coming for you Locked in the hotel ♪
- Okay, now we're at the hotel room.
Clothes are coming off, people.
- They just knew each other.
- This is a good first date, 'cause I don't think they
knew each other.
- Sexy sells.
- I wouldn't have my grandkids watch this.
- Pretty racy video. Pretty, pretty risque here.
- Now we know what happened. The curtains open.
Now it's morning. Mm-hm.
- It was good. It was all suggestive.
It was a lot of sexy poses between the two of them,
romance, romantic. It didn't have to be in your face
once again and then the lights come on and it's after the fact.
And implied is sexier than in your face.
♪ You know I love it when you call me señorita ♪
- Oh.
♪ I wish it wasn't so damn hard to leave you ♪
- Ah, this is great. Young love, the future's bright.
♪ Ooh, I should be running ♪
- It's a hit. I know it right now.
- See, this goes back to melody and verse and something
we all understand, at least in my league.
♪ Ooh, I Ooh, I ♪
- Beautiful.
- He's left her. She looks very unhappy.
Beautiful scenery. He's gone and--
aw, he left her.
- Now whoever directed this gets it.
Good job, Dave Meyer.
- I love it. I would hit replay.
Replay, replay.
- The song's beautiful, the video's beautiful.
That's really nice. That young, hot love
that you go through. It's different when you get older,
you still have that first hot part of being
in love with someone or having a crush on someone,
but there's nothing like when you're young.
- (FBE) All right, so before we talk about the music video
that you just watched, this was one of the biggest
videos this week, so we wanted to be sure
to cover it. - Well I'm glad to hear that.
I really am.
- (FBE) So although this might have been more suitable
for another generation, we happened to have
the elders coming in today, so we figured that having
an elder's perspective on this was really interesting.
- Another generation, now they would be
shocked by it. If you watch TV and movies
these days, this is very innocent.
- (FBE) So, this was a new single titled Señorita by two
of the biggest pop singers right now, Camila Cabello
and Shawn Mendes. - Oh, Camila Cabello, okay.
- (FBE) Have you heard of either of them before today?
- No. Although of course,
I'm not that young.
- No, that doesn't mean much. - (FBE) What'd you think of them?
- I still think about Frank Sinatra.
- No, I've never heard of them. I don't follow it too much,
but they get my vote. I wanna adopt them as children,
as my kids.
- Shawn, yes. I did hear of Camila.
- I've heard of them and I've seen them on TV,
but Shawn Mendes, he's everywhere.
You have to hear of him.
- I've heard of him many, many--
for a few years, actually. Her, no.
I have never heard her before. - (FBE) Where have you heard
of Shawn Mendes? - My daughter.
Yeah, I know that she buys his music for iTunes
and she has gone to a couple of concerts.
- (FBE) Camila rose to fame back in 2015
with the girl group Fifth Harmony.
- I had heard of that. Fifth Harmony.
- (FBE) But later on, she started her own solo career
where she's won numerous awards and has even been
nominated for a couple of Grammys just with
her first solo album. - Wow.
- (FBE) Shawn started to gain a following back in 2013
when he would post song covers online
and as of filming this episode, he currently has
over 20 million followers on Twitter and over
45 million followers on Instagram.
- I wouldn't doubt it.
- Gonna ask my kids and my grandkids.
I'm sure they're one of the followers.
- (FBE) This song was actually not their first collaboration
together, as they sang I Know What You Did
Last Summer back in 2015, so many fans were excited
to see them with a song together once again.
In music, there have been many big collaborations,
but now it seems that it's even easier for
music artists to collaborate. - Absolutely, because
with YouTube and social media, it's all in the artist's hands now.
- (FBE) Have there been any collaborations between
big artists that you remember from when you were growing up
that were a really big deal? - Laurel and Hardy were big.
You know who Laurel and Hardy is?
No. The Marx brothers.
No, you don't know who that is either.
Simon and Garfunkel. Those guys had some
very famous songs.
- Bowie and Mick Jagger did Dancing in the Streets,
which I just loved that. I enjoyed that,
'cause they're two of my favorites.
- Donny and Marie Osmond. Even though they're
brother and sister, you know they always
do a lot of duets to everything and Shelly West and Frizzell,
all that, it's there.
- When I was real young, it was still some of
the old timers doing duets together.
Sinatra doing with this or Dean Martin doing with this one.
I always enjoyed watching, but it's great to see
great talent come together.
- Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross.
Big heavy hitters came together. You're already in love
with each artist and then for them to come together,
it's just icing on the cake.
- Of course I do. I mean, you're walking
right into my bread basket, kid, because we did produce--
my partner, he was the talent. Snuff Garrett, we did produce
Sonny and Cher.
- (FBE) So, going back to the song, as of filming
this episode, this music video has gained over 80 million views
in just four days and was one of the most watched
videos on YouTube this week. - Oh my goodness.
- 80 million. So it's being shared
and shared and shared.
- (FBE) What do you think it is about this video and song
that made it so popular? - First of all, the fact
it's so beautiful, the way it's made.
The colors blend and it's really lovely, well done.
- I think people was waiting for it.
If they have a good hit previously, people are looking forward to it.
- They each have power in their own right,
so when you put them together, it just must have blown up
because of that.
- Sex sells. Always has, always will.
We can redefine it any way we want
as generations move forward, but sex sells and they're two
good looking, sexy people.
- The music sounds good. If I wasn't looking at a video,
I would just love the music by itself.
- (FBE) So Camila, she's just 22 years old and Shawn
is only 20. - My God.
- (FBE) Both of them have a predominantly younger fanbase.
Many have said that this video is very sexual
and even has an insinuated sex scene, with many fans
suggesting that they're actually dating
after the release of this video. Do you think that it's
an artist's responsibility to make sure that
their videos are deemed appropriate for their audiences
or do you think it's up to the audience
to make that choice for themselves?
- Well that's up to the audience's side.
They're just trying to make a product that's successful,
so they can make the money and make more of them
and whatever, but those two people are good looking
and young and healthy and they should be together.
Heck, people wanna see that.
- They have to draw a line somewhere, but remember,
they're both over 18, which is adult
and what I've seen in the video is nothing close to even rated R.
- It's artist's choice. I don't think it's inappropriate
with all the younger audiences already seen.
Any fool, my age usually, who thinks it's inappropriate
has not been watching television, YouTube,
whatever's going on.
- Artists have to be careful about what they're putting
out there. If they wanted to continue
being watched, if they wanted to take them to the next level,
they have to be careful what they're putting out there.
- I believe in the media initiating values.
It's not really totally the responsibility of parents
and the viewers, but it is a big responsibility
of the media. - (FBE) So, you were saying
you wouldn't let your grandkids watch this.
- Because they would think it's okay.
A first meeting, you could do whatever you want.
You could let go of your hormones, so to speak.
- (FBE) So finally, what two artists, alive or dead,
would you want to see collaborate on a song together?
- Oh, who would I want to collaborate on a song?
Jennifer Hudson and Fantasia because they are just
packed with soul and I think they would really sell
a lot of records.
- Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.
They're my two favorite singers and they both have
great voices and they both have great showmanship.
- It's kinda mushy, but I would like to see John and Paul
perform again together and make their amends
and write one terrific, fabulous last song.
- Adele sing with Mike Buble. Good one, huh?
- Tony Bennett and Beyonce. That'd be fun.
Because her voice is so magical and he's so--
his voice is no longer magical, but he's magical.
He's just amazing and she's amazing,
so that would be fabulous.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Elders React.
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